Dear Friends and Family,
Today marks the beginning of an intrafamily war of blogs. Curran in her infinite wisdom has decided to compete with me for our familys attention. Apparently my blogging about Mackenzie is not enough to satisfy her new found love affair with writing and posting photo's of Mac. I will put up a good fight but she inherently has more energy and time. Could we coexist you ask? Of course not, I cannot handle being co number 1 in my own house, so I will write until my fingers bleed and Comcast calls to complain about my uploading photo and video bandwidth abuse.
Well all joking aside, Curran has a neat site that she is having fun with. It has much much more in terms of photos and I believe you can actually order the photos and they are sent directly to your home. The link is http://maczinn1.shutterfly.com/
I will continue to update when I have something interesting to add. Curran will probably do a better job of updating and such so you might want to regularly check both.
Beijos,
Marcelo
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Bill Gates: 11 things they don’t teach in school
Bill Gates: 11 things they don’t teach in school
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this one. To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here’s some advices Bill Gates dished out recently at a high school speech about 11 things they don’t teach in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality, and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair…get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000/year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a cell-phone, until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a word for flipping burgers-they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up it’s not your parents fault, so don’t whine aboutyour mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they arenow. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, andlistening to how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from theparasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but lifehasn’t. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll giveyou as many times as you want to get the answer right. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers andChristmas break off, and very few employers are interested in helping youfind yourself. Do that on you own time.
Rule 10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have toleave the coffee shop and go to work.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this one. To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here’s some advices Bill Gates dished out recently at a high school speech about 11 things they don’t teach in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality, and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair…get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000/year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a cell-phone, until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a word for flipping burgers-they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up it’s not your parents fault, so don’t whine aboutyour mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they arenow. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, andlistening to how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from theparasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but lifehasn’t. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll giveyou as many times as you want to get the answer right. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers andChristmas break off, and very few employers are interested in helping youfind yourself. Do that on you own time.
Rule 10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have toleave the coffee shop and go to work.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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